by Barbara Tuchman · Munchen : Deutscher Taschnbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423100601
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«Der ferne Spiegel» is the historical essay by Barbara Tuchman, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (580 pages, in German).
It portrays the European 14th century, an age of contrasts: the splendor of crusades, cathedrals and chivalry against wars, famines and the Black Death. Barbara Tuchman follows the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy VII to show both great events and everyday life, and connects that turbulent time with present-day concerns.
Translated into German by Ulrich Leschak and Malte Friedrich, it is part of the dtv Geschichte collection (no. 10060). Original work: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century; National Book Award.
For readers with command of German interested in European medieval history and historical popularization.
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
